[IvarTJ]

Why code in C++ anymore?

I don't know C++ and its community very well, but here are my suspicions. I'd love for someone to confirm or dispel them.

* Relative to C is obviously that it provides a greater toolbox.

* Relative to Java, it gives more fine-grained control of the target platform, and programs have somewhat better startup speeds (though still often not very good, which I again suspect is because of large binary sizes).

* Relative to Python and Ruby, its static typing gives better guarantees as it allows less to fail at runtime.

* Relative to Go, Rust, D and ML languages, it is more well-established. Especially regarding GUI toolkit libraries.